Section: Information / Money

Debt And Credit Structure

Commercial/market practices that take physical form, e.g. a contract on parchment (not just verbal agreements).  
Contributors: Seshat RAs and Experts

Variable Definition
Polity The Seshat Polity Name
Year(s) The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Confidence Inferred : The value is inferred.
Suspected : The value is suspected (Expert Check Needed).
Evidenced : The value is backed up by sufficient evidence.
Disputed? No : No disagreement among scholars.
Yes : There is disagreement among scholars.
Expert? : Not yet Checked by a Seshat Expert.
: Checked and accepted by a Seshat Expert (or RA).

Variable Definition
Debt And Credit Structure The absence or presence of "Debt And Credit Structure" for a polity.

Debt And Credit Structure
#    Polity     Year(s)      Debt And Credit Structure   Confidence     Disputed?     Expert?   Edit
1 Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II 1867 CE 1918 CE present Confident No Edit
2 Soviet Union 1923 CE 1991 CE present Confident No Edit
3 Us Reconstruction-Progressive * Year Range of Us Reconstruction-Progressive is assumed.
[1866, 1933]
present Confident No Edit
4 Antebellum US * Year Range of Antebellum US is assumed.
[1776, 1865]
present Confident No Edit
5 British Empire I * Year Range of British Empire I is assumed.
[1690, 1849]
present Confident No Edit
6 Lombard Kingdom * Year Range of Lombard Kingdom is assumed.
[568, 774]
absent Inferred No Edit
7 Anglo-Saxon England I * Year Range of Anglo-Saxon England I is assumed.
[410, 926]
absent Inferred No Edit
8 Dutch Empire * Year Range of Dutch Empire is assumed.
[1648, 1795]
present Confident No Edit
9 Whydah * Year Range of Whydah is assumed.
[1671, 1727]
present Confident No Edit
10 Kanem-Borno * Year Range of Kanem-Borno is assumed.
[1380, 1893]
present Confident No Edit
11 Sokoto Caliphate * Year Range of Sokoto Caliphate is assumed.
[1804, 1904]
present Inferred No Edit
12 West Burkina Faso Red II and III * Year Range of West Burkina Faso Red II and III is assumed.
[1100, 1400]
absent Inferred No Edit
13 West Burkina Faso Red IV * Year Range of West Burkina Faso Red IV is assumed.
[1401, 1500]
absent Inferred No Edit
14 Early United Mexican States * Year Range of Early United Mexican States is assumed.
[1810, 1920]
present Confident No Edit
15 Plantagenet England * Year Range of Plantagenet England is assumed.
[1154, 1485]
present Confident No Edit
16 Alaouite Dynasty I * Year Range of Alaouite Dynasty I is assumed.
[1631, 1727]
present Confident No Edit
17 Napoleonic France * Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed.
[1816, 1870]
present Confident No Edit
18 Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty * Year Range of Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty is assumed.
[919, 1125]
present Confident No Edit
19 Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II * Year Range of Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II is assumed.
[1649, 1918]
Transitional (Absent -> Present) Confident No Edit
20 Khwarezmid Empire * Year Range of Khwarezmid Empire is assumed.
[1157, 1231]
unknown Suspected No Edit
21 Hohokam Culture * Year Range of Hohokam Culture is assumed.
[300, 1500]
unknown Suspected No Edit
22 Golden Horde * Year Range of Golden Horde is assumed.
[1240, 1440]
unknown Suspected No Edit
23 Saffarid Caliphate * Year Range of Saffarid Caliphate is assumed.
[861, 1003]
unknown Suspected No Edit
24 British Empire IIIIIIIIII * Year Range of British Empire IIIIIIIIII is assumed.
[1850, 1968]
present Confident No Edit
25 Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period * Year Range of Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period is assumed.
[1820, 1898]
present Confident No Edit
26 Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II * Year Range of Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II is assumed.
[1776, 1917]
present Confident No Edit
27 Tudor and Early Stuart England * Year Range of Tudor and Early Stuart England is assumed.
[1486, 1689]
present Confident No Edit
28 Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty * Year Range of Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty is assumed.
[1310, 1526]
present Confident No Edit